Plum Black Eye is dedicated to the idea that there is one image a day worth sharing, without judgment or reservation or specific context, a simple record of a moment caught with a cell phone camera and offered in the spirit of curiosity. At times there may be accompanying text....

Sunday, January 27, 2013


 A Supermarket in California

What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman, for I walked
down the sidestreets under the trees with a headache self-conscious looking
at the full moon.
In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images, I went into the neon
fruit supermarket, dreaming of your enumerations!
What peaches and what pensumbras!  Whole families shopping at
night!  Aisles full of husbands!  Wives in the avacados, babies in the tomatoes!
--and you, Garcia Lorca, what were you doing down by the watermellons?

 --Alan Ginsberg, an excerpt from A Supermarket in California

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